askchapo

they're mixing material goals with aesthetics and I understand the impulse. it is effectively all lifestyle shit but as one bizarre early youtuber who lived in a DIY geodesic dome on a landlocked piece of forest without road access put it- the only way out is through the bottom, the lie we're sold is that the only way to be free is to climb to the top.

that guy has since lost the plot in my opinion and is borderline doin a settlerism lately, but I don't blame him for buying a tiny island in a warmer climate and going the direction he did, I just think internet attention + IRL isolation + genius mind resulted in some pretty sketchy thinking and cult-building impulses. no theory havin ass mufucka that he was.

I cut my own hair because I'm poor but also it is an inherently punk thing to do, ditto my ancient DIY repaired clothes etc. it's hard to avoid contemplating the social signals I send out aesthetically. the lines get blurry. their impulse comes from the right place. I think the aesthetic stuff is more about signalling and finding community than being purely performative alternative. It's a messy post but I get it

either that or Gibson's The Peripheral TV adaptation finally dropped and I don't know about it yet. lol